Game designers to be – how to get started

Steve Gaynor, a designer at 2K Marin, is working on Bioshock 2 now, and there’s a really informative interview with him on EDGE. What’s really special about his interview is that there’s material there that’s relevant to GET students and persons who’re new to the gaming industry. Snippets follow:
My approach was to enter via level design, which [...]

Hakuna Matata (Afrika) as Educational Software

Game Genre
Simulation
Introduction
Hakuna Matata for the PS3, or more commonly known as Afrika in the international market, isn’t a game for everyone. The theme of the game is centered on wild animals on the African Savannah, and you play a photographer and throughout the game campaign, are given missions via email to take pictures of the African animals in [...]

General Events: New Era Games Day Visit

While Dissidia is still taking part of my life away, rendering me too busy to do anything else other than watching Scrubs and History’s Strongest Disciple Kenichi at home, I actually managed to go out today, well actually, I was asked to go out, to the magazine company I’m gonna do reviews for.
The two of [...]

Temasek Polytechnic – Second Life

Here’s a write-up by Ken Lam, a student in GET Senior year, on his work on Temasek Polytechnic’s presence in Second Life. – Dr. Foo CY
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This year’s Open House was a defining moment for Temasek Polytechnic’s Information Technology school. With the unveiling of Temasek Polytechnic’s virtual school in Second Life, the polytechnic hopes that this [...]

A Gama-centric Q&A with Mr. Ng Chongming

Starting this month, we’re gonna roll off a series of interviews with GET staff and specifically oriented around the games we find time to play or get involved in.
Rolling off with Mr. Ng Chongming first, who’s currently teaching Object-Oriented Game Programming to GET Juniors…

What are you currently playing now?
I haven’t been playing games religiously lately [...]

Game Review on New Era by GET students

The first game review by GET students for New Era has been posted up, and should also be appearing on their magazine Gamers’ Choice soon enough. Benjamin Ng, a current GET Junior, reviewed Quantum of Solace for the XBox 360.
Ever dreamed of holding a gun and shooting down henchmen while wearing designer suits and hooking [...]

Game Developer Conference 2009

We’re sending students again to this year’s Game Developer Conference held in San Francisco, 23 to 27th March 2009. If you’re interested to go, do notify your careperson ASAP. Spots are limited!

As Dated.

Quite recently, Wee You posted a link and discussed how the gaming industry was resilient towards an worldwide economic recession. I just read this article posted on Gamasutra, which featured interviews with veteran game developers (a concept artist, test programmer, etc.). This, I guess, is the flip side of the coin.
These developers seemed to [...]

Video games more popular than film and music

So says Mike Griffith, the head of Activision studios.
“Movies, recorded music and television – these are all stagnating or contracting entertainment sectors,” he said. “Video games are poised to eclipse all other forms of entertainment in the year ahead.”
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“Movies, recorded music and television – these are all stagnating or contracting entertainment sectors,” he said. “Video [...]

Learn how to drive by playing GTA

Here’s one of the most intriging game-inspired news in the first week of the new year, and coincidentally comical too: a six year old boy missed his school bus, but determined to get to school regardless, drove his family car. And how did he learn to drive? By having played GTA…!

An excerpt from Associated Press:
The boy, whose [...]